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At the end of the colab notebook, you need to install sentencepiece to complete the translation task. !pip install sentencepiece

thanks for reporting this! i’ll push a fix this afternoon

Hi. I wanted to understand a bit deeper on difference between encoder vs encoder-decoder models for question-answering. ModelHub currently has both BERT and T5 models for question answering. The encoder lecture mentions BERT is good for QA tasks. Could someone please point me with more reading mater…

Hi there! So Ecoder-decoders models will be very good at “generative question answering”, which is generating the answer to the question given the context. It’s different from what an encoder can do (which is “extractive question answering”, which just says the answer to this question is from word x…

Understood. Thanks for the explanation.

Beginner Beginner query: I’m working my way through to try and use the transformers for classification, and potentially question answering, and sentence forming. Is it possible to use say of the bert models to encode the text for zero-shot classification, and use the same model to interact with res…

hi @LJay welcome to the :hugs: forum! your use case sounds quite tricky to solve end-to-end with a single model, so you’re right to think that you’ll need multiple components / models. for instance, BERT models are not typically designed for text generation, so a decoder-only model like GPT-2 woul…

There seems to be an editing error in the explanation for answer 1 to Question 11 in the Chapter 1 quiz. The explanation says (emphasis added): Correct! When applying Transfer Learning, the bias in the pretrained model used perspires in the fine-tuned model. I think “perspires” should be somethi…

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I cannot download translation models in Colab.

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